Slate thinks Washington is a Second-Rate Theatre City.  What do you think?

Slate, an online magazine which specializes in telling people how to think about politics and culture, has done President-elect Obama the favor of telling him how he should think about Washington, D.C. – his new home. And, in a stunningly economical move, Slate, rather than surveying the current state of Washington culture, simply recycles the advice it gave to President Clinton in 1993 – with “glaringly dated references edited out”, Slate assures us.

Here’s what Slate says about Washington theatre, then and now:

“The theater is still second-rate at best.”

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